Thursday, May 21
6 to 8 p.m.
The Foundry, 101 Rogers St., East Cambridge.
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Sisters on the Runway Fashion Show
$5 to $10. Sisters on the Runway raises awareness and funds in support of victims of domestic violence. This year’s theme for its annual runway fashion show is “Light in the Darkness.” All money raised goes to Transition House, a local domestic violence shelter.
8 p.m.
The Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Ave., near Harvard Square.
Ward Hayden & The Outliers: Bruce Springsteen Pre Party
$25. The music of Bruce Springsteen performed Outliers style with special guest Nic Panken. Ward Hayden & the Outliers’ new album “Little by Little” has taken the songwriting of Bruce Springsteen and channeled it through their country music.
Friday, May 22
6 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
Campfire Festival (through May 25)
$20. Passim’s twice-a-year, four-day homegrown festival of Americana, bluegrass, blues, Celtic, country, folk and related musical styles is in its 25th year, with more than 50 artists performing through Monday, May 25. Adam Hendey kicks off this year’s festival. Flagship Romance, Diana Daniels, Alouette Batteau, Trae Sheehan, GHOST GRL, davy, Kate White, Eloise Shaw, Ella Duff and Cam Peak are also slated to perform.
7 p.m.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.
Molly Crabapple reads from “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”
Free. The two-time Emmy Award-winning animator and author tells the story of the Jewish Bund, a revolutionary movement active between 1897 and 1920, and discusses its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. Harvard’s Shaul Magid joins.
Saturday, May 23
1 to 2:30 p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Asian American and Pacifica Islander Heritage Month Celebration with Boston Festival Orchestra
Free but register. Join Boston Festival Orchestra Artistic Director Alyssa Wang, BFO musicians and guest artists for an intimate chamber music experience of Asian American and Pacific Islander composers.
Sunday, May 24
2 p.m.
Harvard’s Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Harvard Square.
Radcliffe Choral Society presents Farewell to Cambridge Concert
$5. The concert, the Radcliffe Choral Society’s last before its upcoming international summer tour to South America, presents American composer Sally Lamb McCune and her music of Appalachian inspiration, as well as pieces of cultural relevance to South America based on a Uruguayan poem and Argentinian composition, “Te Quiero.”
Monday, May 25
10:30 a.m.
Cambridge Common, 1500 Massachusetts Ave., near Harvard Square.
Memorial Day Observance Ceremony
Free. Join Director of Veteran Services Director Cynthia Harris, Mayor Sumbul Saddiqui and Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem and other City officials in commemoration of Memorial Day.
2 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
Campfire Festival
$20. Passim’s music festival concludes with Ella McDonald, JB Cardineau, Lloyd Thayer, Wheelzie, Breachway, Ariana Rezaei, Sophia Laure Blues Band, Rosa Joe Jacobs, Adam Monaco, Stephanie James, Lexi Ugelow, Nora Meier, Jessye DeSilva and The Garden of Eden, Nicolás Emden, Pearl Scott, Mark Lipman and Eva James performing on this last night of the festival.
7 p.m.
Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square.
Elan Mehler Trio performs
$15. The jazz pianist and composer who’s released 11 albums performs with Max Ridley and Dor Herskovits.
Tuesday, May 26
7 p.m.
Porter Square Books, 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Porter Square.
Lindsey Danis reads from “(Out) on the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel”
RSVP. Queer people spend around $100 billion annually on travel and are twice as likely as the general population to hold a passport. Lindsey Danis empowers LGBTQ+ travelers to face their fears, expand their comfort zones, find community, and thrive on the road. Author Milo Todd joins.
7 p.m.
The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Davis Square.
Lip Critic takes the stage
$18 to $22. New York-based art punk band Lip Critic performs from its new album, “Theft World,” released on May 1.
Wednesday, May 27
7:30 p.m.
Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
Black Swan
Starting at $88, but check performance date. Tony Award winner Sonya Tayeh brings the Academy Award-nominated psychological thriller “Black Swan” from Searchlight Pictures to the stage.
8 p.m.
The Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Ave., near Harvard Square.
Four Piece Suit with special guests Barrence Whitfield and John Troy
$11 to $20 and 21-plus. Four Piece Suit is David Becker on bass, Jeff Giacomelli on saxophone, Seth Pappas on drums and Milt Reder on guitar. The predominantly instrumental group has been heard on soundtracks for “Sex and the City” and “Dexter.”
Thursday, May 28
5 to 9 p.m.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., near Harvard Square.
ArtsThursdays: A Free Night at the Museums
Free and all ages. Experience the world-famous Blaschka Glass Flowers, a new rubies installation in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Gallery and “Swimming with Sharks: A Deep Dive into Shark Biology and Behavior.”
7 p.m.
The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Davis Square.
Edwin Honoret on tour
$20 to $25. The musician and YouTube content creator became a member of the Simon Cowell five-piece boy band PRETTYMUCH in 2016. The pop/R&B artist and songwriter is out on his own now, touring the U.S.
Friday, May 29
1 to 1:30 p.m.
Harvard Art Museums, Special Exhibition Gallery on Level 3, 32 Quincy St., near Harvard Square.
Gallery Performance: Celtic Art Across the Ages
Free. This dance performance is related to the special exhibition “Celtic Art Across the Ages.” Rebecca McGowan and Kara Howgate-Mello showcase traditional Irish sean-nós (old style) dancing, accompanied by Clare Fraser on fiddle.
7:30 p.m.
Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square.
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Starting at $27, but check performance date. In this spoof of Gothic melodramas, an English estate may or may not be haunted by its former recently deceased mistress.
Saturday, May 30
11a.m. to 5 p.m.
Seven Hills Park, Davis Square.
2026 New England Hong Kong Festival
Free admission. Hosted during Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month, this year’s festival brings together 40 local vendors, artists and community groups offering food, gifts, and interactive activities. There will also be live performances from bands, martial artists and cultural performers, as well as free games, family-friendly activities and photo ops.
7 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.
Sen. Chris Murphy reads from “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America”
$20. The Connecticut senator looks at the political ideas that have seized the American spirit. Author and Boston College’s Heather Cox Richardson joins.
Sunday, May 31
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Remnant Satellite, 877 Cambridge St., Wellington-Harrington.
Cambridge NITES: SheRocks the Local Scene
Free. This weekend-long, woman-focused event has a little something for everyone including live bands, DJ sets, drag performances and an open mic.
1 to 3 p.m.
An Sibin, 1193 Cambridge St., Inman Square.
Bluegrass Brunch
Free. Catherine Bowness and Alex Rubin host this “bluegrass brunch” featuring local musicians.
Monday, June 1
7 p.m.
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.
Morgan Thomas reads from “Mad Eden”
Free. In this debut novel, Morgan Thomas tells the story of a trans healthcare worker who’s carefully built life is imperiled by a series of circumstances. Co-editor-in-chief for the LGBTQ+ literary journal, Foglifter Journal Milo Todd joins.
8 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
Passim Monday Discovery Series: Lucy London and the Lion Sisters
$20. Through the Discovery Series, Club Passim provides a platform to connect new artists with a music-loving audience. Lucy London is a folksinger and touring musician from Petaluma, California, currently based in New Orleans. The Lion Sisters’ music blends folk and bluegrass with Irish fiddle, vintage country and subtle pop and rock influences.
Tuesday, June 2
5 to 7 p.m.
Urban Park Roof Garden at Kendall Center, 325 Main St., Kendall Square.
Berklee Summer in the City: Elise Rochet
Free. Elise Rochet is an alternative pop singer-songwriter currently in her senior year at Berklee College of Music studying music business/management and vocal performance with the Berklee World Tour Scholarship.
8 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
Jesse Terry and Frank Viele perform
$25 to $30. A New England-based Americana singer-songwriter, Jesse Terry has written music for Netflix’s “Virgin River” and The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” and his latest album is “Arcadia.” Frank Viele’s brand of New England blues rock brought him to release “The Silo EP.”
Wednesday, June 3
4 to 7:30 p.m.
Hoyt Field (Gilmore and Montague streets off Western Avenue), Riverside.
Pop-Up Recycle Event
Free. Residents are invited to drop-off batteries, books, electronics and printer cartridges, fluorescent bulbs and other mercury items (thermometers, thermostats), plastic bags/film, scrap metal, curbside recyclables and bulky rigid plastics (laundry baskets, pails).
6 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
Barbara McQuade prescribes “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government”
$12, $42 with book. Former U.S. District Attorney for Michigan Barbara McQuade offers a look at the escalating threat of far-right politics and how to save democracy.
Thursday, June 4
7 to 9 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.
Eve Plumb book signing
$40 with book. Actress, singer, painter and entrepreneur Eve Plumb, best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady in the ABC sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” signs her book, “Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond.”
7:30 p.m.
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Davis Square.
American Dreams: The Moth Mainstage
$52 to $96. Five seasoned storytellers share extraordinary, true stories that dig deep into the idea of the American Dream. Does it even exist anymore?
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